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Catholicism on the Web (On the Web Series)

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As I should have know from the 1996 publication date, the web addresses included are quite out of date. Well over half of the web sites included that I've tried no longer exist. However, as another reviewer noted, the brief articles give you enough information to use search engines to come up with similar, or even more useful, sites. One particular aggravation: The publishers include their own site where "links to all the sites listed in this book can be accessed." Guess what? Not only does the citation contain an obvious misprint, but the site no longer exists!

As webmaster for American Catholic Online for St. Anthony Messnger Press, I'm always looking for good resources on Catholicism on the Web. No one has yet matched Tom Fox's compilation of sites and commentary. His selection is broad, but more important, he brings his years of experience as a leading Catholic journalist to the fore as he describes who is behind the Web sites and what they are up to. The only pity is that it is a print product. As such, the links began to be outdated even as the book was printed. But with Fox's book in hand you can use the search engines to track down outdated links.--John Bookser Feister, Editor, American Catholic Online

I am a Deacon in the RC church and I use this text to research subjects that expand the daily readings of the liturgy into daily life. I find it just wonderful. Many new ideas are found especially of matters of "social justice." jvk 1998

This book will be useful to virtually anyone who wants to makes sense of the Catholic Web. It shows a networked global church active in the world today